From the "Opinion" section of the
Santa Cruz Sentinel:
July 9, 2005
Apocalypse ThenThere truly is nothing like a July Fourth in Santa Cruz County. For me, two episodes Monday encapsulated this fabulous holiday:
At the always great Aptos parade, we were sitting in lawn chairs along Soquel Drive, watching the world in all its independence pass by, when a group of Klingons (hint: Star Trek) made their annual appearance. While I really, really don’t want to offend any Klingons out there or Klingon sympathizers, let me only say these paraders are big folks — muscular guys, and women with ample ... that bust out ... well, amply.
So I’m sittin’ there, minding my own bidness, when a woman who my pal immediately nicknamed "the Kleevage Klingon" came sauntering up, holding a camera.
With my family looking on in either amusement or revulsion, the Kleevage Klingon then sat alongside me, handed the camera to a fellow alien, then put her arm around my shoulders.
Her sister Klingon snapped the photo.
"Gonna put this one on the Internet!" rasped the Kleevaged One, grinning at me (my daughter later claimed the Klingon "had a beard," but I dunno ...).
Ah, and now I know why I’ve been warned to stay away from the Internet!
— Don MillerThe rest of the article can be found
here.